COVID-19 is a leading cause of death in children and young people in the US

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.today 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Something finally beat guns.

[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe not. Data wasn't broken down by choice of weapon.

Among children and young people aged 0 – 19 years in the US, COVID-19 ranked eighth among all causes of death; fifth among all disease-related causes of death; and first in deaths caused by infectious or respiratory diseases.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Getting murdered 4th place feels preventable 🤔 more guns and less regulations should fix it

[+] Limonene@lemmy.world -10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Disease has always been a bigger cause of death in the US than guns.

2019 US gun deaths: 39,707
2019 US heart attack deaths: 659,041 (17 times higher than guns)
2022 US COVID-19 deaths: approx 244,000 (6 times higher than guns in 2019)

[–] SelfProgrammed@lemmy.today 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Stay on topic, we're talking about children here.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If I were to wager, I'd bet that accidents (majority of which are car related) would be the leading cause of death in children followed by cancer. I'd like to see what of the accidents were gun related/caused though. Also intentionaly caused deaths via gun violence broken down into suicides and homicides would be a insightful stat.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

Jesus Christ, 659,041 kids had heart attacks in 2019!?! Or are you citing statistics that aren't relevant to what's being discussed in this thread?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, "a leading" not "the leading"

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You mean like "falling into a single rusty nail is the leading caused of tetanus of the eye? But only a leading cause of loosing an eye?" Scientists, though, have proven that falling right on a rusty nail pointing perfectly upwards with its pointy side straight into the eye is 100% effective at inducing eye removal surgery.

[–] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This study is for 2021-2022 during the peak of COVID and is not indicative of the current situation. While we still have to be vigilant, accidents, murder and especially intentional self harm should be way more concerning

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Accidental is #2? Like people dropping babies?

Edit, oh, this includes teenagers

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Car accidents, falls, drownings, poisonings (ie eating something you shouldn't), fires. There are a lot of horrible ways to go.

[+] Scolding7300@lemmy.world -9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Department of Computer Science?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Analysing lots of data.

Kind of study we call social data science.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought that would be under social studies or medicine or math (statistics) and not part of the computer science department

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago

I did a degree that was “social data science” and we were part both of the computer science and the social science department, so to me it isn’t shocking a study like this might be attributed to the computer science department.

[–] Plagiatus@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not a government department, a university one.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

I guess I expected a collaboration with experts from the medicine world